Just as a little heads-up, a Nov. 9 Craigslist posting is seeking some workers for the Seattle DDR U.S. Regional competition to be held on Nov. 14. Those approved as event staff will earn $12 an hour over two days - there will be a short meeting on Friday, Nov. 13 to meet with management and learn what is expected of the staff workers for the Saturday tournament and Nov. 14 will consist of set up, tear down and insuring the event runs smoothly.
So if you were interested in attending the tournament, but too timid to actually compete, this opportunity should fit the bill for you very nicely. You can view the posting right on Craigslist, but if you are planning on replying, make sure you do it soon.
On a side note, we have noticed that the Las Vegas Regional has come on gone, with the competition taking place on Nov. 7. If you happen to have results and would like to weigh in on what took place at the event, please let us know.
Wow, i don't know if that's either a good sign or a bad sign.
Good because we can get experienced players that know their stuff and know how to fix pads and hopefully lag on machines and know how to properly run a DDR tournament.
Bad because this just shows that Konami doesn't have experienced people in this, and if some jerk-off decided to go for it without having prior knowledge of the machine and or play style, they will literally just be there to get the money.
anyways, hope all goes well and hope that some good knowledgeable players sign up for this to help out :).
Wow, i don't know if that's either a good sign or a bad sign.
Consider the tournament where Konami couldn't afford to fly a representative out and how much it fell apart. Hiring a couple people who know what they are doing for up to ~8 hours over two days (~$200) is cheaper than round trip airfare (discount CA -> WA flights are as low as $100, flights at a reasonable time of day are much more) and a night in a hotel (up to something like $200 depending on exactly how close away from the venue, which is in pretty much in the heart of Seattle's shopping district) plus whatever they pay the rep. for working a full Saturday (6-8 hours, probably more than $12/hr), so it's a much more economical solution to the problem of "Gameworks doesn't know what they are doing."
I'd take it as a good sign, especially since there are a handful of Seattle area players (including at least three of our tournament organizers) who either don't play much anymore or who don't normally play competitively, but still like being a part of the Bemani community and are usually completely willing to help out; and if you will remember, helping out was a ban-worthy offense in MN, so having people who both can help and know what they're doing is a huge improvement.
Posted by MrTM2 - Wed 11/11 2009 - 08:23 AM [ quote ]
Kinda an improvement. They just need to send Ryan because he knows what the hell needs to be done to have a successful tournament (their PR department needs to get on the ball though, this Guitar Hero tourney at Cowboys Stadium, with the biggest TV in the world has TONS of publicity)
Posted by yyr - Wed 11/11 2009 - 09:30 AM [ quote ]
It's a good sign, IF they manage to hire someone who knows what they're doing.
They didn't come here to find someone. They posted on Craigslist. Anyone with a computer could reply to that posting. I don't know how the economy is over there right now, but if there are a lot of people looking for part-time work, they'll be flooded with responses...and I don't see "familiarity with DDR" listed as a requirement.
The skeptical side of me says that a couple of random people are going to wind up being tournament helpers, and that they're not going to know anything about the game OR running a competition.
Posted by eddie - Wed 11/11 2009 - 11:45 AM [ quote ]
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Originally Posted by MrTM2
Kinda an improvement. They just need to send Ryan because he knows what the hell needs to be done to have a successful tournament (their PR department needs to get on the ball though, this Guitar Hero tourney at Cowboys Stadium, with the biggest TV in the world has TONS of publicity)
Ryan is no longer with Konami, which is probably part of why they're doing this. I'm not sure if he wants the details behind it out, so I won't say, but it has nothing to do with the tournaments thus far (for those that want to speculate).
Yeah, the Craigslist approach has failed them. At 10am emails went out saying "we've filled the positions, your interview is canceled" to all remaining applicants. The 10am and 11am interview slots were occupied by two of our organizers.
I would assume they didn't just come straight to the community as most Seattle area news runs through pnwbemani, rather than BMS, DDRFreak, or similar, and it doesn't rank highly on too many searches. Additionally they probably assumed that anyone who knew what they were doing via prior tournament experience would not actually want to organize rather than compete or something like that
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